I knew before I got here from a message from the NTN Playback message board that the Playback game would be cancelled this week after the attacks on September 11th in New York City and Washington DC. I had been overwhelmed by the television coverage of events and after five days of coverage I had to get out.
It was nice to see some friends and Richard BERGIE, Kimmo KAV, Ray MAC and his wife ???? GUMBY, and Bill MADDOG were out this night. I was working two boards tonight. All sports had been cancelled so all televisions were dialed to CNN news for even more coverage.

The games I played:...I started the evening with 1479300 Players Plus points for ROCKET and 59000 for LITBOX.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8004/15000...4th/12...1000+ points...I'm 3871st in NA...bar is 237th.
..............LITBOX...9073/15000...5th/12...1000+ points...MAC wins...I'm here in time for the last ten questions.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9360/15000...4th/12...2000+ points...I'm 1776th in NA...ZONTAR wins.
..............LITBOX...9127/15000...5th/12...2000+ points...I'm 2006th in NA...bar is 11th in North America with a 10744 average.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...5425th/15000...3rd/11...500+ points for not meeting the 9000 point standard...I'm 3781st in NA...bar is 12th in North America with a 6420 average!
.............LITBOX...4944th/15000...5th/11...500+ points...MAC wins and is 4th with a 10xxx average!
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...4637/15000...9th...500+ points for not meeting the 6000 point standard!
..........LITBOX...4609th/15000...10th...500+ points...bar is 9th in North America with a 8480 average!...individual averages were not given...MAC wins.
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9102/15000...3rd/10...1000+ points...I'm 2003rd in NA.
...................LITBOX...9066/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 2034th in NA...bar is 16th in NA with a 9709 average...BERGIE wins.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10781/15000...1st/13...1000+ points...I'm 759th in NA.
.............LITBOX...10682/15000...2nd/13...1000+ points...I'm 844th in NA...bar is 183rd.

We were really trying during those Wipeout games. I've never played through harder games with more obscure stuff. It's almost as if they didn't want any of us to earn a full 1000+ points and pass the regular players who weren't out this weekend. I was expecting rerun games. Well a small situation like that is not worth being upset about.

Everyone has had an opinion on what happened. The turning point in my fear was after not hearing an airplane for two days, I was at a soccer game in Richmond Hill and we were standing for a moment of silence (something I'd do five times during the week) and I heard a plane pass overhead and I just knew the world would eventually recover. One of the few happy moments was to see a posting on the Playback message board from Bill MEGUMI from Long Island New York who'd been a visitor to our a bar such a few months before. That's the only person from New York that I know.